Those released. Where will they land?

I think people are being harsh on AB. He had only 9 EFL games under his belt when he came to Notts. He's played in a successful promotion campaign, helped the team to a mid table position in it's first season back in the EFL and scored a cracking goal.
I'm sure he'd be the first to say their were a few heart stopping moments along the way, but hey, he played in one of the more successful Notts teams. Good luck to him.

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I think people are being harsh on AB. He had only 9 EFL games under his belt when he came to Notts. He's played in a successful promotion campaign, helped the team to a mid table position in it's first season back in the EFL and scored a cracking goal.
I'm sure he'd be the first to say their were a few heart stopping moments along the way, but hey, he played in one of the more successful Notts teams. Good luck to him.

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“Heart-stopping moments” is one thing (and there were plenty of those), but we’re talking about repeatedly making mistakes that cost us goals and games.

I know the opposition increasingly looked to force mistakes from us, but too often we were our own worst enemies last season with very poor decision-making. What seems clear is that to play the type of football we hope to, we need more reliable defenders than AB at the back.

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“Heart-stopping moments” is one thing (and there were plenty of those), but we’re talking about repeatedly making mistakes that cost us goals and games.

I know the opposition increasingly looked to force mistakes from us, but too often we were our own worst enemies last season with very poor decision-making. What seems clear is that to play the type of football we hope to, we need more reliable defenders than AB at the back.

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You mean defenders like Captain Calamity

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Bajrami should be added to the defensive list, assuming he signs a new deal. But yes, two more to replace the two outgoing CMs is needed.

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Bajrami needs to be as far away from the defence as possible

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Aden Baldwin won't be short of decent offers.

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I agree I’d be shocked if he went down a level and not totally surprised if he went up one.

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I agree I’d be shocked if he went down a level and not totally surprised if he went up one.

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Really?

I would be more than surprised if he went up one. Can't see him in L2. Not with last season on his resume despite what was expected of him.

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Really?

I would be more than surprised if he went up one. Can't see him in L2. Not with last season on his resume despite what was expected of him.

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Everyone keeps saying his clangers but out of nearly 90 goals we let in how many were down to his clangers? The game that really stuck out was Shrewsbury but that was the FA cup. It’s worrying if he’s not good enough for L2 as for me he was our best defender last season, it will be interesting to see where he ends up.

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Everyone keeps saying his clangers but out of nearly 90 goals we let in how many were down to his clangers? The game that really stuck out was Shrewsbury but that was the FA cup. It’s worrying if he’s not good enough for L2 as for me he was our best defender last season, it will be interesting to see where he ends up.

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I agree.
Clangers stick in the memory so probably seem more frequent.
Without doubt he made mistakes but the main contributor to conceding was losing possession in midfield and having too many players ahead of the ball to recover.
On the flip side, that’s the main contributor to why we scored so many goals.

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Everyone keeps saying his clangers but out of nearly 90 goals we let in how many were down to his clangers? The game that really stuck out was Shrewsbury but that was the FA cup. It’s worrying if he’s not good enough for L2 as for me he was our best defender last season, it will be interesting to see where he ends up.

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He was good for a stupid mistake in way too many games, it wasn’t just the goals he gave away. One that stands out for me was at Mansfield, where he gifted them the ball playing out from the back. He then did well to win the ball back, only to give it away straight after and gift them a chance.

If he can cut out the errors and those frequent lapses in concentration, he’ll be a quality lower-league player. We just didn’t see any proof that he could do that this season.

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Everyone keeps saying his clangers but out of nearly 90 goals we let in how many were down to his clangers? The game that really stuck out was Shrewsbury but that was the FA cup. It’s worrying if he’s not good enough for L2 as for me he was our best defender last season, it will be interesting to see where he ends up.

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I said "with last season on his resume". He will probably be ok in a "normal" back 4. It's fair to see given the number of goals we conceded that most of the defence was not good enough last season and I would put Macari above him as the best defender - by some way. I cannot count the number of clangers without going through that video somebody posted of all the goals but it will be a considerable number I would say between 7 and 10. Far far too many. The odd one well it happens but he would make a glaring stupid error in pretty much every game he played that gifted the opposition a good chance. they did not always convert into goals.